Two game players in Venice Beach try to master the Piano Tiles app. Sean Anicic of Toronto and Elizabeth Stirling. / Sean Fujiwara

by Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY

by Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY

VENICE BEACH, Calif. - There's a new top app atop both the Apple and Google Play Android app stores. It's super easy and very addictive.

Piano Tiles, which changed its name in iTunes Friday from Don't Tap the White Tile, follows recent hot apps like 2048 and Flappy Bird in that anyone can play - you don't have to be a spelling whiz, know the capital of Kansas or be able to solve complicated puzzles.

Just know the difference between black and white tiles, and make sure not to tap the white ones. Tap the black tiles - not the white ones, and tap them faster than you did before to get a high score that's measured in seconds.

Piano Tiles - still dubbed Don't Tap the White Tile on the Google Play store - is extremely similar to the recent app Don't Step the White Tile, with a slightly different interface.

Both hail from developers based in Japan.

We brought the app out here on an iPad to get players reactions, and folks seemed to enjoy themselves.

"Way harder than it looks," said Alexis Evans of Los Angeles. "It's addictive."

Sean Anicic of Toronto kept asking to play it just "one more time" to beat his previous high score. "It's like a computerized drug."

Elizabeth Stirling, from Glasgow, Scotland, said Tiles "keeps your brain active without too much challenge. It's not like Suduko, where you have to think about it too much. It's fun."

James Jerlecki, an app developer based here in Venice, noted the trend of easy games that anyone can play - like Flappy Bird and 2048. "I don't know how long the shelf life for these sorts of games are," he says. "But it's a great way to waste time. You'll start to see even more of these types of games than you see now. It's an interesting strategy."

Readers: Are you loving or hating the Tile apps? Let's chat about it on Twitter, where I'm @JeffersonGraham.